Episodes

Nick Stenson was running businesses, travelling constantly, building his own brand and doing what he’d always done: moving fast and getting shit done. Then he found out he had cancer. This is Nick’s story. We talk about the surreal Sunday night he discovered something was seriously wrong, trying to schedule a business meeting around cancer surgery, working through chemotherapy, losing control of the things he thought mattered and what happened when life finally forced him to stop. Nick came o...

There's a big difference between needing to be right and needing to get to the right outcome. This week I'm talking to *Emma Robertson*, CEO, longtime champion of women in technology and one of the clearest voices on leadership I know. We talk about ego, humility, diversity of thought, why culture is never "done", women in technology, AI, and why our job as leaders isn't to have all the answers. We just need to be really clear about the problem we're trying to solve, bring the right people in...

How much do you actually know about yourself? Not your job title. Your personality test. Your strengths assessment. *You.* Dr. Lauren Borden, PhD, PCC is a holistic leadership coach with a PhD in industrial-organizational psychology. She brings together the science of human behavior with intuition, leadership coaching and Human Design. *And she’s coached me.* What I love about Human Design is how individual it gets, incredibly quickly. How _you_ make decisions. Where _your_ energy comes fro...

The word *soul* comes with a lot of labels, woo-woo, spirituality but to me, your soul is simply your humanity. Your values, your beliefs, your integrity, your intuition, your resilience, your empathy, your energy. Every one of us has our own version of these things. They evolve throughout our lives, and they shape how we show up every single day. In this episode, I'm joined by *former Microsoft and GitHub leadership executive, executive coach and author Rachel Salzberg* for a conversation th...

*The best leaders earn the right to have tough conversations through an unconditional commitment to their people.* *What if an unconditional commitment to your people is the foundation of a truly great culture?* In this episode, I'm joined by *executive coach and leadership expert Julie Ketover* for an honest conversation about trust, feedback, conflict and what it really takes to build high-performing teams. Together we explore: * Why feedback only works when your intention is crystal clear...

Most of us think we're protecting ourselves. The reality is we're often making it harder to build trust, lead people and work well together. We all get defensive. The question is whether we notice it. In this episode, we unpack the five defensive stances we all fall into, why awareness is the first step towards change, and how becoming just a little less defensive can transform the way we work with other people.

Work Therapy | The Sunday Sessions is about the stuff that doesn't usually make it onto the polished, 'professional' version of you, and why it's actually one of your greatest assets. So lucky to chat openly with my amazing friend Amy. HR leader, mother of two, one of the warmest and most fearless people I know and someone who has been through the kind of thing that changes you forever. We've known each other for over 20+ years. Two unconventional parenting journeys, two different kinds of har...

Work Therapy | The Sunday Sessions is the podcast that lives in the gap between who you are and what your LinkedIn says. Every other Sunday, host Katie Martin talks to people doing interesting things, those who've been through something real and come out better for it, and the coaches, practitioners and slightly left-of-centre humans helping others do the same. Human design, things that sound woo woo until they quietly change everything. One question connects all of it: how does going deeper...